High School English and TPT Seller Resources
Teaching strategies you can use in the classroom to up your education game
So you’re teaching odes to high schoolers. Odes are complicated poems and the classical ones can be difficult for struggling readers to understand. This doesn’t mean they’re impossible, however! Regardless of your students’ abilities, you...
Read MoreI absolutely love October, Halloween, and everything that comes with fall! I might be a #BasicTeacher, but it does lead me to instill some seasonal activities into my classroom. In this post, I want to...
Read MoreYou’ve established independent reading in your classroom. Congratulations! But now what? How do you make independent reading meaningful for students? Once students are actually reading, there are many independent reading activities you can do to...
Read MoreCreative Writing was forced onto my schedule; I didn’t ask for it. But it ended up becoming my favorite class period of the day. While academic English courses can feel high-stakes and always short on...
Read MoreHow do you become a “fun” teacher? Fun was never my strong suit, but I was always working on making my lessons more engaging. When you break away from the traditional “lecture and notes” model...
Read MoreYou know that you need to teach grammar. But when you look at your students’ writing, you’re overwhelmed. How can you possibly explain a semicolon or all of the comma rules when your students can’t even write a complete sentence? I’ve gone through the same struggle, my friend. While you probably can’t turn all of your students into Shakespeares in a semester, you can help them improve greatly. In this post, I hope to help show you how to teach grammar (especially to struggling students).
Read MoreWhen I was first told that I’d be teaching creative writing, I panicked. While I had always enjoyed writing myself, I had no idea how to show others how to do it creatively. After all, all of my professional development had focused on argumentative writing and improving test scores. Eventually, though, I came to love my creative writing class, and I think you will too. In this post, I hope to help you with shaping your own creative writing class.
Read MoreCollege taught me a lot about teaching. I learned about Bloom’s taxonomy and the Common Core State Standards. But the one thing that my peers and I desperately wanted to learn, but were never taught, was how to manage a classroom. Now that I have eight years of teaching experience in a Title 1 school, I want to share what college didn’t teach you about classroom management.
Read MoreEvery year, teachers are asked to do more--close the gap, make learning fun, use technology, encourage independence, provide quality feedback, collaborate, and so on. It’s not easy finding a class structure that perfectly meets the needs of students, administrators, and classroom evaluators. When it comes to teaching writing with mini lessons, however, you can get pretty close.
Read MoreLately, everywhere I turn teachers are talking about literature circles--and for good reason! If you’re looking for a way to create rigor in your classroom and to cultivate authentic, real-life skills in your students, then literature circles may just be the activity your curriculum needs!
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